PATEA NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 253, 26 October 1939, Page 2

PATEA NEWS

MAGISTRATE S cot Rl ■*. S C ' S.M.. in tufl ' ■ ■ - I given in each of th** following untieI tended civil cases; -Egniont Tourist j Motor. . Lf*L. v. .1. E. Hickey. £7 costs £1 Us 6d: Ha ’orth and Harris Ltd.. . Rau P ta. £lB Is 3d, costs £3 3s; .! C. Cunnison v. T. Rolle.ston, £1 9s , \ Owens, costs only Bs. • On judgment summons* s !.L Pickg va - V. Priest £7 3s 3d. costs las 6d, in default seven days, ’arrant suspended on payment nonl >’K • ■- ’ » dcred to pay D. R Gydc £7 ISs 7d. in default right day*. warrant suspended ■ payment of .1 per month. T. Roller«»n was ordered to pav Haworth 5 and Harr..- £22 l-5s 64 <oku £1 Ils - f>l. n default 21 days, warrant to be Lew.s Cliarlfe? Amon .is lined 10* ? and costs 12s for attempting to cross, th** railway line at the Manutahi 9 Consta e K< slab I that defenn- * ant's motor-cycle ran into a carriage - on the Wanganui-Haw era train. De , fondant did not get hurt. It was a * very bad crossing, with a boxthorn ■ the line ano .’ also a sleep bank. William Gray, vv ho pleaded guilty, was convicted and fined costs only -'ll 0s 6d for using a hose for watef- : ing a garden, such hose not being held j iirected by a competent per- ; I Mr. C. Nicholson, who appeared for J the Patea Borough Council, statcu that at 10 p.m. on October 3 the engineer, Mr. J. O. Cunningham. ■ found the hose on. The council was _ ’ not asking for a heavy penalty bill 'I wished to draw attention to such : I abuse of the by-law and make an .. example. W. G. Old. who pleack-d guilty by | ktter. was convicted and ordered to * t pav costs £1 0s 6d, on a similar ’’charge. 1 1 On a fir>t charge of making a cotr ’ inert ion with the waterworks service : pipe of other premises without the ‘ j consent in writing of the engineer. ! W H. Sedgeman was convicted anti ordered to pay costs only £1 0s 6d, and *’ on a second charge of not having ■ agreed to be supplied with water from 1 i the waterworks and taking watri * j from the supply furnished to another : person. W. H. Sedgeman. was ron--1 vietpd and ordered to pay costs only ‘ £1 0s 6d. In the reserved decision on the case E. T. Pulley \. A. J. Ericksen in a ’ claim for £l7 5s for the breaking oi * a plate glass window, judgment was given for defendent with costs to b« , arranged by the council. PATEA R.S.A. SCHOLARSHIP The Patea Returned Soldiers’ Assui elation have founded a scholarship tG - be known as the “Patea R.S.A - Scholarship.’’ To be eligible to enter, candidates must be children of ex-